In March 1990, Professor Burland was asked to be part of a 14 member committee charged with stabilising the tower, which began to develop its characteristic lean after construction progressed to the second floor in 1178. Slideshow requires Javascript and Flash 9 Scroll through the slideshow (below) to see Professor Burland’s visit to Pisa with The One Show and his family. It was a great moment when I showed my family around the tower, which is one of the proudest achievements in my career.” Coming back to Pisa all these years later, it is amazing to see the tower restored to its former glory. It was close to collapse and covered in centuries of grime. When I first started the project 20 years ago the tower was in a sorry state. Professor Burland says: “Working on a World Heritage site with a disparate group of highly intelligent professionals from all different backgrounds was a very rewarding and challenging process - one that I will never forget. The visit also enabled The One Show to highlight the wealth of world-leading engineering expertise in the UK.
The One Show crew took Professor Burland back to the tower in April this year to talk about the engineering processes behind the project as part of show’s programme to mark the twentieth anniversary of the stabilisation project. The campaign was one of many projects Professor Burland worked on in his 50-year career and some of his family had never seen the tower before. Twenty years ago, Professor Burland, from Imperial’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, took part in a major international effort to rescue the 800-year old tower, which was in danger of complete collapse. The ultimate civil engineering challengeĪ researcher from Imperial College London, his family, and a BBC film crew travelled to Italy last month to commemorate a project that prevented the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapsing.Įmeritus Professor John Burland and his family visited Pisa with a film crew from BBC One’s The One Show to see the city’s most famous landmark.
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